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Putin follows frighteningly familiar path

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The United States, NATO and the European Union are concerned about
what is happening in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained that he is trying only
to protect the Russian-speaking people in Ukraine from persecution and programs that might be
carried out by the new Ukraine government.

There is a precedent for this from years ago.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler wanted to protect the German-speaking population in Czechoslovakia. He
ended up annexing the area known as Sudetenland, and Western powers agreed to that. I hope we don’t
have a new Munich Agreement.